Palm-shaped (Adjective)
Meaning
Of a leaf shape; having leaflets or lobes radiating from a common point.
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- Cottonwood trees are easily recognizable due to their palm-shaped leaves that have five to seven distinct lobes.
- The fan palms, a group of palm trees native to Asia, have large palm-shaped leaves with long, slender petioles.
- The distinctive palm-shaped leaves of the palmetro are simple to identify, with a cluster of leaf lobes radiating out from a central point.
- Tree-of-heaven has palm-shaped leaves, typically one to three feet long, with distinctive long petioles.
- The giant philodendron sports beautiful, green, palm-shaped leaves that can get quite large in ideal growing conditions.